EU must speak up loud and clear against the US' unilateral moves

The on-going G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, is a crucial moment for the world to uphold multilateralism and rules-based world order that are under the grave attack by US unilateral and protectionist behaviors.

European Union leaders highlighted their goals for the summit on Wednesday in a joint letter issued by European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. They include upholding the rules-based world order and multilateral institutions that underpin it and calling on the G20 leaders to step up action to mitigate the existential climate threat and safeguard free and fair global trade.

These are goals that leaders of China and many other countries have also been advocating, in total contrast to the United States administration which has been withdrawing from and ignoring international organizations and multilateral agreements, and resorting to unilateral and protectionist "America First" policies.